Rank: Corporal
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 1-Oct-1947
Hometown: East Rockingham, North Carolina
Marital status: Married to Peggy A. Russ, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 3-Aug-1967
Start of tour: 23-Apr-1968
Incident date: 10-Nov-1968
Date of casualty: 10-Nov-1968
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Billie Grover Russ died from wound received while driver of a military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle was hit by hostile anti-tank round.
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Lewis Cemetery, Bladenboro, North Carolina, USA
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